The HTTP Protocol
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What is HTTP? It was invented in 1989 and is an application layer protocol built on top of TCP IP. The client and server communicate in a request-and-response format. HTTP is the basis for the web as it is known today. It is used to load web pages, the content inside the web pages, applications can use HTTP as well as web services such as SOAP. In this lesson we will go more into depth about HTTP.